This post is a kind of tribute to Karl Blake, an English musician. He plays a lot of different instruments and h
e has done pretty many recordings in pretty diverse musical styles. The common category of all of those seems to be "avantgarde", "experimental" or something like that. He is a founding member of Lemon Kittens and Shock Headed Peters, and has worked together with many musicians and performers, among them Danielle Dax and Lydia Lunch. I came to know his artwork first when I bought the 12" EP "Life Extinguisher" back in the 80ies - I do not have any clue of why I have bought it. Here is the song "Scorch" ('My friend's adrift - she's a dorsal morsel') from that record. The picture featured in the video is the cover painting by Danielle Dax:
From the same EP, the song Life Extinguisher:
The Lemon Kittens: What the Cat brought in:
Suicide Ocean w/t Lydia Lunch:
Finally, I add a cover of a famous and influential song, the version of Heartbreak Hotel done by the Shock Headed Peters. I find it at as remarkable as the better known, equally "ironic" rendering of the classic tune by John Cale featured on June 1, 1974:
e has done pretty many recordings in pretty diverse musical styles. The common category of all of those seems to be "avantgarde", "experimental" or something like that. He is a founding member of Lemon Kittens and Shock Headed Peters, and has worked together with many musicians and performers, among them Danielle Dax and Lydia Lunch. I came to know his artwork first when I bought the 12" EP "Life Extinguisher" back in the 80ies - I do not have any clue of why I have bought it. Here is the song "Scorch" ('My friend's adrift - she's a dorsal morsel') from that record. The picture featured in the video is the cover painting by Danielle Dax:From the same EP, the song Life Extinguisher:
The Lemon Kittens: What the Cat brought in:
Suicide Ocean w/t Lydia Lunch:
Finally, I add a cover of a famous and influential song, the version of Heartbreak Hotel done by the Shock Headed Peters. I find it at as remarkable as the better known, equally "ironic" rendering of the classic tune by John Cale featured on June 1, 1974:
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